Over the sea in the southeastern part of the Land of Fire.
Whether it was continental drift, tectonic movement, or volcanic activity, nothing had ever made this unknown little island leave the horizon. Yet at that moment, it seemed to leap suddenly into the air before slamming back down hard.
The violent explosion was muffled beneath the surface, but blazing light erupted through every natural and man-made gap. The plants closest to the center of the explosion were carbonized by the intense heat in an instant, then pulverized by shock waves sweeping back and forth across the ground.
The trees farther away were all ignited without exception.
In the blink of an eye, the peaceful little island had become a sulfurous mountain shrouded in billowing smoke, its pungent stench spreading across the broad, empty sea... If one ignored the intense Chakra reaction from moments earlier, anyone who saw this scene would think a volcanic eruption had occurred here.
"Cough, cough... The environmental pollution is a little excessive. Isn't Chakra supposed to be clean energy?" After roughly fifteen minutes, Yuhara finally returned to the surface with his nose and mouth covered. Seeing the scene filled with thick smoke, he could not help saying this.
Chakra could indeed be considered "clean energy," but the problem was that the underground area was not merely geological. It concealed a huge man-made facility—the Sky Ninja's accumulated wealth from all those years. After burning it, expecting it not to produce smoke was a little unreasonable.
Considering all the underground experimental equipment, weapons factories, living facilities, and so on, Yuhara had essentially blown up a chemical plant with a Tailed Beast Ball and then let it burn inadequately underground. The result was easy to imagine. The smoke rising from the island was as black as it could